TJ Weekly - Yosha Gunasekera
Undisclosed: Toward Justice
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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February 9, 2026 - Rabia and Colin welcome Yosha Gunasekara, an attorney and author, to discuss her debut novel, 'The Midnight Taxi.' The conversation explores various themes including the challenges of the criminal justice system and the influence of true crime on literature.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome back to Undisclosed toward justice. |
| 0:25.3 | Rabia here, and I'm here as always with my colleague Colin Miller. |
| 0:28.6 | Hey, Colin. |
| 0:29.6 | Hey, Robbie, how's it going? |
| 0:30.6 | Going well. |
| 0:31.6 | I have gotten through snowpocalypse. |
| 0:33.6 | By the time this airs, I don't know how many other rounds of storms we're going through |
| 0:36.6 | but you'll be digging yourself out, I'm guessing. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm excited about the guests we have on today. It's kind of, I think, I mean, in a way, I think this is kind of a different guest than we've had on before. I mean, in terms of like, you know, kind of the work that she's done. So I'm pretty excited about this. But I'm going to turn it over to you, Colin, to introduce our guest. Yeah, our guest today is |
| 0:54.4 | Eusha Ganeshira |
| 0:55.5 | and Yosha is the |
| 0:57.6 | intake this, but I'm going to turn it over to you, Colin, to introduce our guest. Yeah, our guest today is |
| 0:54.4 | Yosha Gunasakara, and Yosha is the intake strategic initiative's attorney at the Innocent |
| 1:00.5 | Project. Previously, she was a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in New York City for six |
| 1:07.4 | years, and she is also the person who teaches the making exonerity class at Princeton |
| 1:12.3 | University. And finally, she is the author of the New Murder Mystery, the Midnight Taxi, which |
| 1:18.0 | releases on February 10th. So, Yosha, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so |
| 1:23.3 | delighted to be here. Yosha, I want to start off by saying that I am envious that you are a novelist. It's something I've always wanted to be and have not been able to check that off my list yet. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Congratulations on your new book. Thank you. Listeners have probably read the so-called locked room mystery. Yoshua, it makes sure it's unique is it's a locked taxi cab mystery where we have this |
| 1:45.7 | taxi cab driver in New York City picks up a fare, so as to drop them off at JFK Airport, and then what |
| 1:51.9 | happens, Yosha? He winds up dead. He has a knife to the chest, and, you know, my main character, |
| 1:58.7 | is Herriwati Pereira, is arrested as the obvious suspect and then has to fight her way through the criminal legal system to, you know, prove her innocence. |
| 2:10.2 | And early in the novel, a very significant thing is, is she going to be detained pending trial or is she going to be released, which is a huge |
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